Agent skill

Advmat Referee Strategy

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Advmat Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-referee-strategy -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills advmat-referee-strategy --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-referee-strategy .claude/skills/advmat-referee-strategy && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
advmat-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
529 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise.

  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Who should judge an Adv.…, Suggesting referees well and Opposing referees (use…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Advmat Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise. Plans referee selection and objection defense; does not write the manuscript or the rebuttal.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/advmat-referee-strategy”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Advmat Referee Strategy loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 529 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 529 words, ~1,300 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/advmat-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
advmat-referee-strategy
description
Use when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise. Plans referee selection and objection defense; does not write the manuscript or the rebuttal.

Advanced Materials Referee Strategy (advmat-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The submission form asks for suggested and opposed referees and you have not planned them
  • You want to pre-empt the objections a materials reviewer will raise before they raise them
  • You are unsure who can judge both the novelty and the characterization rigor of the work
  • A prior submission was rejected on a predictable objection you could have addressed

Who should judge an Adv. Mater. paper

Adv. Mater. work sits at the intersection of synthesis/characterization and function/device. A good referee set covers both competences, plus the breadth the gate demands:

  • A synthesis/characterization expert — can assess whether the structure/phase/composition claims are proven by the technique set.
  • A property/device expert — can assess whether the performance and benchmarking are fair and meaningful.
  • A neighboring-field / application referee — supports the broad-impact claim by judging why the advance matters beyond the immediate subfield.

Aim for referees who are current in the field, not conflicted, and not exclusively from your own collaboration network. Follow the journal's rules on number and eligibility.

Suggesting referees well

  • Suggest people who can evaluate the whole chain — someone who only knows the synthesis may wave through a weak device claim, and vice versa.
  • Include at least one referee from the claimed neighboring/device community to substantiate breadth.
  • Avoid conflicts: recent coauthors, collaborators, same-institution colleagues, and advisors/advisees are ineligible.
  • Do not stack the panel with people certain to be friendly; obvious partisan suggestions undermine credibility.

Opposing referees (use sparingly)

  • List direct competitors with a genuine conflict, or individuals with a documented dispute — briefly and professionally.
  • Keep the list short; a long opposed list reads as defensiveness.
  • State a factual rationale ("direct competitor on the same material system"), not a personal complaint.
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Pre-empt the objections materials reviewers raise

Address these in the manuscript before submitting; each is a common Adv. Mater. rejection lever:

Likely objectionPre-empt by
"The advance is incremental / optimization only"Frame the design rule / trade-off broken; contrast with SOTA
"The structure/phase is not proven"Triangulate with complementary techniques (see advmat-methods)
"The hero image is not representative"Give distributions and statistics, not one micrograph
"The benchmarking is unfair / cherry-picked"Compare under matched conditions; cite the best reported systems
"It won't reproduce / batch variation hidden"Report n, mean ± s.d., and batch-to-batch data in the SI
"Stability/durability not shown"Include cycling/aging/operational-stability data
"Not broad enough for Adv. Mater."Name the out-of-subfield beneficiary; make the impact case (cover letter)

Checklist

  • Referee set covers synthesis/characterization AND property/device competence
  • At least one suggested referee substantiates the broad-impact claim
  • No conflicts (recent coauthors, collaborators, same institution, advisors/advisees)
  • Suggestions are current and credible, not merely friendly
  • Opposed list is short, factual, and professional
  • The manuscript pre-empts the incremental, characterization, benchmarking, and stability objections
  • Referee choices are consistent with the cover-letter impact case

Anti-patterns

  • Suggesting only friendly names or only your own subfield
  • Suggesting referees with obvious conflicts (recent coauthors, same institution)
  • A long opposed list that signals defensiveness
  • Leaving a predictable objection (no benchmarking, single-technique proof) unaddressed
  • Naming a "breadth" referee while the manuscript makes no breadth argument

Output format

【Suggested referees】synth/char: ... | property/device: ... | neighbor/impact: ...
【Conflicts screened】yes / fix
【Opposed referees】name — factual rationale (short)
【Objections pre-empted】incremental / structure / hero-image / benchmarking / stability — covered?
【Consistent with cover letter】yes / fix
【Next】advmat-submission (enter referees) or advmat-revision (after reports)

Rules on referee numbers, eligibility, and conflicts are set by Wiley and evolve — verify on the official Advanced Materials author page.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Advmat Referee Strategy

What does Advmat Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise. Advmat Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing suggested and opposed referees for an Advanced Materials submission and pre-empting the objections materials reviewers most often raise.

When should I use Advmat Referee Strategy?

Advmat Referee Strategy fits situations like: tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Advmat Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/advmat-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Advmat Referee Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/advmat-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Advmat Referee Strategy in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/advmat-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/advmat-referee-strategy, .github/skills/advmat-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/advmat-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Advmat Referee Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Advmat Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Advmat Referee Strategy access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Advmat Referee Strategy safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Advmat Referee Strategy use?

Advmat Referee Strategy is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Advmat Referee Strategy use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Advmat Referee Strategy?

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Who maintains Advmat Referee Strategy?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.